And a special thank-you to our first two sponsor gyms: CrossFit Geneseo and CrossFit Rochester. If you want to row and raise some money and need a place to do your 5K, or if you just want to stop by an offer support to those participating, swing by one of these two great gyms on April 18th!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

If you live in the Rochester, NY and would like to help out your local Red Cross Chapters, how about joining the Row For The Red Cross. All funds you raise will be donated to the local chapters of the American Red Cross to help those in need in the local area.

Once you have your page set up, let your friends, family, co-workers, etc. know that you are going to row 5000m on Sunday April 18th. We'll get a list of participating gyms up as soon as we have finalized the list.

If you have any questions, shoot me an email at info@rowfortheredcross.org

Hope you can join us in our support of these two local Red Cross Chapters!

Friday, March 12, 2010

If you'd like to participate in the Row For The Red Cross you can now sign up and create a donation page at our donation page at FirstGiving http://www.firstgiving.com/GRCROSS Just click on the "Get Started" button and follow the directions.

We will soon be posting locations where you can go to do your 5K row. We've got positive responses from a couple gyms in the Rochester area. If you are a gym owner/manager, or are involved with a crew team or rowing club and would like to get involved please contact us a.s.a.p.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Just wanted to give folks an update. We are waiting to get the event registration set up with FirstGiving.com There have been a few delays - it's just taking us a bit longer than we expected to get it all coordinated. I appreciate your patience!!! We'll have the registration and list of places you can go to row your 5K posted as soon as possible!

About Us

This organization was started by Jeff Rice and Bethany Wadsworth - two CrossFit'ers who had a crazy idea to row a million meters on a Concept2 rower in 2010. That idea spawned the idea of rowing a marathon in April to raise some money for the American Red Cross. That idea spawned the idea of getting other people to join in the "fun" and help the Red Cross in the process. We're not asking everyone to row a marathon... but we hope we can get folks to row a 5K on a Sunday in April and help an organization that helps thousands of people everyday.